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girl of ten or so — little Zornka, for example — would cut 

 up the wood for the fire with great precision and speed. 



July £>th. — You are to understand that we made our 

 hours for meals by the sun. At present it was about 

 like this. At ten or eleven in the morning the Samoyeds 

 rose, and the men went out to tend the reindeer and to 

 settle matters about the camp. There was always plenty 





to be done — sleighs to be made or mended, harness put 

 right, reindeer brought up and inspected. Meantime the 

 women were getting ' ortow ' ready. They fetched for 

 water melting snow in wooden tubs ; they made the fire, 

 plucked the geese, and finally called us to a well-cooked 

 meal at noon. 



At seven in the evening ' yaliernia zeindow ' fell, and 

 ' vayosoom zeindow ' at midnight. After the morning- 

 review of the reindeer I was not a little surprised to find 

 that many teams had not been set free, but remained 



